I am really only myself when I’m somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
ZELDA FITZGERALDAll I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself.
More Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes
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Father said conflict develops the character
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Nothing could have survived our life.
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I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
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Maybe other people’s ideas of us are truer than our own.
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I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.
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Something in me vibrates to a dusky, dreamy smell of dying moons and shadows.
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And only weaklings who lack courage and the power to feel they’re right when the whole world says they’re wrong, ever lose.
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Look closer and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.
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She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.
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I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.
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One illusion is as good as another.
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Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.
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Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor’s orders for a stomach pump.
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Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.
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It’s terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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